Connected Classroom Project: Options

This week in testing, we made an suprising discovery. The ZT-180 tablets do an amazing job running Windows CE 6.0r3 Embedded. The speed is very snappy, the OS load is about half the size of Android 2.1. The boot is about 10ish seconds, and shutdown is almost instant. The touchscreen calibration is very, very good. in fact, handwriting notes are a possibility! This was not the case in Android 2.1 . Flash based scripts work fairly well.

The downside is that it is Windows CE. The eye-candy, forget it. large app base, forget it. Wifi configuration can be a headache, but it works.

However, if you are making primarily web-based apps, this is an option that is worth looking into…